As many others have already blogged, ApacheCon EU is taking place in Dublin this week.
This year it collides with school vacation in Northrhine Westfalia and so I won't be able to attend the full conference - building castles out of sand on a Northsea beach is the schedule for the rest of the week and beyond.
I met Carsten and his wife at the airport in Düsseldorf. We left Germany at somewhere around 26 degree and reached Dublin about 90 minutes later at 13 degree. When I entered the bus into town I met Betrand. This is what ApacheCon is mostly about for me, meeting people I've only ever met occasionally. I don't expect to do much coding, maybe discuss a few AntUnit things or try to get Torsten to fix the BCEL build in Gump, but not really become productive.
Right now Conor is sitting next to me which really tops it all. We've been working together on Ant for more than six years now but never met in person.
I even had my first Guinness (early as it is) while I watched Australia fall to Italy in a game decided by a last-minute penalty resulting from a bad decision by the referee.
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